Lichting 2017 Fashion Design Award goes to Lizzy Stuyfzand

Yesterday (7/14/2017), on the second day of Amsterdam Fashionweek (MBFWA) Mini Berlin Blogger Team went to see the Lichting show (the annual contest for 14 graduating Dutch fashion design students) Lizzy Stuyfzand was the winner of the Lichting Award, for most promising talent, which is €10,000! Congratulations!! Ms Stuyfzand graduated last month at ArtEZ Arnhem with her menswear collection “Call me magpie” (see more about that here on this blog)

The second award, €3000; is ‘The Audience’s Favorite’ went to Sarah Bruylant of AMFI. The students participated to this lovely show were: Roos Boshart, Rachael Cheong, Annebel de Kok, Miro Hämäläinen, Karlijn Krijger and Ninamounah Langestraat (read more about them here lichting.nl) The winners truly deserved the prices they got, but we also rooted for Ninamounah Langestraat (Gerrit Rietveld Academy) her part of the Lichting show really stood out to us because of it’s very strong personality. Congratulations to all students; we wish you the best in your careers! xoxo Mimi

Danial Aitouganovwinner of the Lichting Award and Marlou Breuls winner according to the audience (photocredits; team peter stigter)

We, at Mimi Berlin, still have the voting card for Marlou Breuls, we obviously rooted for an other student….

MBFWA (Mercedes-Benz-Fashion-Week-Amsterdam) opened yesterday evening (July 7, 2016) with the annual, national fashion-awardshow (Mercedes-Benz presents) Lichting 2016. It is Lichting’s 10th anniversary this year so the festive opening, including an exhibition, was in place!

Winners were Danial Aitouganov, he won the Lichting Award of €10.000,- and Marlou Breuls, she won The Audience Favorite Award, which is €3.000,-. They both graduated at AMFI (Amsterdam Fashion Institute) Congratulations to them both!

Amsterdam Fashion Week is about to start. One of our favorite shows must be Lichting, a contest for the best graduated student of the year. So that’s what you get to see: The best fashion students of The Netherlands, and that is always a joy. The photo’s of their work look promising enough!